“With today’s regimes, which struggle to formulate a single ideology, the idea that one lives in a world full of conspiracies becomes the worldview itself. Conspiracy theory replaces ideology with a mix of self-pity, paranoia, self-importance, and entertainment.”
― Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality, 2019
“With today’s regimes, which struggle to formulate a single ideology, the idea that one lives in a world full of conspiracies becomes the worldview itself. Conspiracy theory replaces ideology with a mix of self-pity, paranoia, self-importance, and entertainment.” ― Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality, 2019